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THURSDAY, MARCH 15,
6 P.M.
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Julius Held
Auditorium, Barnard Hall, Barnard
College
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Victor
Erofeyev, "Russian Decadence Is My Literary Motherland"
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Reception
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FRIDAY, MARCH 16
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Philosophy 301,
Columbia
University
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9-10 a.m.
Breakfast
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10-11:30 a.m.
– Precursors of Decadence
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Chair/Discussant: Jonathan Stone, University of California,
Berkeley
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David Goldfarb,
Barnard College, "Sacher-Masoch: Between the Romantic and the Decadent
Sublime"
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Elizabeth Valkenier,
Columbia University, "Russian Realist Painters on Decadence: The
Xenophobic Factor"
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Michael Wachtel,
Princeton University, "Vladimir Solovyov on Symbolism and Decadence"
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11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
– Decadent Music and Drama
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Chair/Discussant: Christopher Harwood, Columbia University
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Steve Downes,
University of Surrey, "On Polish Musical Decadence"
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Anastassiya Andrianova,
CUNY Graduate Center, "The Dionysian Lyre in Lesya Ukrainka's Orgiya"
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Julia Przybos,
Hunter College, CUNY, "Leopold Staff's Igrzysko (Game) in the European
Context."
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Lunch Break
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2:15-4:15 p.m.
– History and Modernity
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Chair/Discussant: Bernice Rosenthal, Fordham University
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Kevin M. F. Platt,
University of Pennsylvania, "Russian History and Decadent Temporality"
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John McCole,
University of Oregon, "Georg Simmel and the Central European Culture of
Decadence"
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Michael du Plessis,
University of Southern California, "Decadent Commodities and Narrative
Objects in Gustav Meyrink's 'Strange Tales' (Sonderbare Geschichte)"
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Evgenii Bershtein,
Reed College, "Why is Larion Shtrup an Englishman? Mikhail Kuzmin's
Wings and European Decadence"
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4:30-6 p.m.
– The Visual and Performing Arts
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Chair/Discussant: Catharine T. Nepomnyashchy, The Harriman
Institute and
Barnard
College
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J.
Trygve Has-Ellison,
University of Texas at Dallas, "Janus-faced Decadents: Nobles and the
Fine Arts in Fin-de-Sičcle Germany"
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Otto M. Urban,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "In Morbid Colors (Part II):
The Idea of Decadence and Art in the Bohemian Lands, 1880-1914"
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Lynn Garafola,
Barnard College, "Decadence and the Iconography of the Male Body in
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes"
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Olga Matich,
University of California, Berkeley, “Decadence and Dance: Synesthesia,
Hysteria, Hybridity”
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17
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Philosophy 301,
Columbia
University
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9-10 a.m.
Breakfast
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10-11:30 a.m.
– The 1890s
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Chair/Discussant: Kirsten Lodge, The Harriman Institute,
Columbia
University
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John Malmstad,
Harvard University, "Breviary of Decadence: The Early Verse of Valery
Briusov"
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Don
La Coss,
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, "Przybyszewski's Psychic
Naturalism, Berlin/Kraków 1894-1901"
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Neil Stewart,
University of Bonn, "The Czech Journal Moderní revue and the
Aesthetics of Decadence: The Uses and Usefulness of a Controversial
Concept"
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11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
– The Legacy of Decadence
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Chair/Discussant: Carol Ueland, Drew University
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George Gasyna,
University of Illinois, "When Decadence Met the Avant-Garde: Witkacy,
the Dwudziestolecie, and the Atrocity Museum"
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Irene Masing-Delic,
The Ohio State University, "Soviet Sophiology: Pil'niak's 'Trotskyite'
Struggle with Decadence"
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Polina Barskova,
Hampshire College, "Against the Grain of Leningrad: Writing Decadent
Petersburg of the 1930s"
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